In this role, you will be performing a significant amount of ______________ (fill in task). Describe your experience with that from your employment history.

Why are you interested in this position, and what are your professional strengths?

Given your previous employment history and personality, what makes you the ideal candidate for this job?

What important knowledge and skills have you learned in your previous positions that you feel would help being successful in this position?

In this role, ______________ (fill in competence or experience) is vital. Describe an example from your history where you successfully applied these skills to achieve success.

Describe your top 2 greatest success stories from your previous roles. Which skills or knowledge helped you to succeed?

Tell us about your achievements in your previous position.

How do you see this industry progressing? How would you keep up with it, and take the opportunities that arise?

Given what you know about our company and the role, what would you see as the key things you would start developing over the next year?

What does your current job entail? Describe a typical day to me.

What kinds of decisions you make in your current job?

How do you keep up with what’s happening in your field.

Would you say you were innovative? Give examples.

What makes you a good________________?

Why should we hire you?

What kind of tasks you like most and why?

Tell us about yourself – what kind of a person are you?

Describe your working style.

What are your top 3 strengths?

Given this position, do you feel you have things (knowledge or personal skills) to improve to be successful?

What kind of duties give you energy and satisfaction?

Tell us your success story in one minute.

What makes you stand out from everybody else?

What would make you stay focused and committed in this position?

What are you most proud of in your career?

What has your current job taught you?

What interests you most about this job?

Do you think speed or accuracy is the most important? Why?

What are the most important things to you as an employee?

Are you innovative? Tell an example of a situation where you or your team have been creative?

What motivates you the best when working?

What’s your greatest achievement? Tell us more about it.

What are the reasons for your personal success?

Describe a task that made you excited, and how did it show from you?

Describe a task that was challenging for you. What have you done to make it through? What kind of results did you end up with?

What kind of expectations do you have for this position?

What kind of expectations do you have for us as an employer?

Describe a time when a task has made you forget about everything else and just focus on the task. What was the task, and why?

Name three key things you would bring to the table while working for our company?

What would you do if we gave you a completely free hand?

What have you done that shows initiative?

Describe yourself as a team member.

Describe a challenging situation where you had to use your communication and interpersonal skills. How did you resolve the situation, and what did you learn?

Name your key strengths when it comes to communicating with people.

How would your colleagues from your previous roles describe you as an employee?

If you have experience on teamwork, name the key things impacted to the atmosphere and performance of the team.

How would your managers and colleagues describe you?

Describe a well functioning working environment.

Describe a good colleague / supervisor.

What is the manager’s job in your opinion? What kind of leadership do you need?

What makes a good team member?

What kinds of things annoys you at the workplace in general?

Under what conditions you work best / produce your best result?

Can you tell us how you get the best out of your team?

What are the most challenging parts in leadership?

What do you consider the essential qualities for a supervisor?

Describe a time you had to manage conflict within your department/ team/group.

What would the people whom you have supervised said about you?

Describe your management style.

Describe a situation where you had to work under pressure. How did you make it through?

What makes you feel stressed out? Name a situation.

How do you act in stressful situations, and how does it show in you?

Describe your best practices for time management.

How do you feel about multi-tasking?

Would you describe yourself as a multitasker, or a person that’s fully focused on one task at a time.

Describe a situation where your work was criticized. How did you respond?